Vogue articles from January 2005

Vogue archives from January 2005

the girl can't help it; Jennifer Lopez has a new husband, a new album, and a new lease on life.
January 1, 2005... Byline: Jonathan Van Meter Right now, there is nothing even remotely unpleasant about Jennifer Lopez. She is not being high-handed or controlling or unmanageable or . . . what's that word? . . . a diva? Please! She's a kitten! At the...

winning combination; An exclusive Oval Office visit, Julia Reed writes, reveals an intimate portrait of the president and Mrs.
January 1, 2005... Byline: Julia Reed It is Veterans Day, a week and a day since John Kerry conceded the election to George Bush, and the president is in the oval office about to have his portrait taken with the First Lady. He is clearly comfortable in the...

Vogue January.
January 1, 2005... fashion 24Life with Andre By Andre Leon Talley 61Talking fashion with Norwich Notes 64Need it now 83Point of view 84The chic of the new The spring collections projected personalities uniquely their own. Choose your...

all access; For 20 years, only celebrities, supermodels, and the supremely connected could get an appointment with Orlando Pita.
January 1, 2005... Byline: Sarah Brown Over his 20-year career, Orlando Pita has become one of the fashionable world's most prolific (and beloved) hairdressers. His patrons have names like Madonna, Sofia, and Kate, and many have become friends. But until...

bring it on home; It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing.
January 1, 2005... Byline: Irini Arakas This is going to sound strange, I know, but I really like wearing clothes that fit like dresses," says Outkast's Andre Benjamin, or Andre 3000, as he is better known. That may be a wildly unexpected point of view (not...

magic moments; The right woman.
January 1, 2005... Byline: Hamish Bowles It was a year of contrast and excitement-from Sally Albemarle in Calvin Klein's sleek Ionic column to Mercedes Bass in Vera Wang's Second Empire crinolines with sapphires to match; from Carolyn Murphy in slinky Gucci...

bright sparks; It's polished, practical, and the perfect way to add a welcome touch of spring to winter.
January 1, 2005... You might want to revise your New Year's resolutions by placing at the top of your list: Buy a bright jacket. It's set to replace this winter's brooch-embellished cardigan as the piece you'll turn to most in the months ahead. To make the...

horoscope.
January 1, 2005... Byline: Athena Starwoman january Rapidly launch yourself into New Year orbit. This is not the month to watch from life's sidelines. Mars (the "take action" planet) is energizing everyone as it races through the entrepreneurial sign of...

directory.
January 1, 2005... Page 14 (cover look): Silk-twill dress, $2,990. Carolina Herrera Store, NYC; Saks Fifth Avenue; Neiman Marcus. Earrings, $8,250. Demner, NYC. Need it now 64: Dolce & Gabbana white crystal-encrusted snakeskin shoes. Dolce & Gabbana boutiques....

A NEW MANDATE.
January 1, 2005... Byline: Anna Wintour It is a tradition at Vogue to mark the beginning of a new administration with a portrait of the First Lady, and in this issue Annie Leibovitz brings you Laura Bush as you've never seen her: slimmer, more beautiful, and...

SCENE & HERD.
January 1, 2005... Department stores are the new In place to meet designers. They appear in early evening, like starlings, at selling-floor cocktail parties, meet-and-greets, and launches for books about themselves. It's a tough world out there: Competition...

START 'EM YOUNG.
January 1, 2005... Byline: Andre Leon Talley Bergdorf's, it is becoming obvious, is the new party central. I ripped through three fashion bashes at old BG in a handful of days. At one of these, the A-list "gets" were a bit different: the fashionable...

riding high; In 1974 Peter Bogdanovich was living with Cybill Shepherd, the stunning star of his upcoming film Daisy Miller.
January 1, 2005... Byline: Peter Bogdanovich When I look at this lovely photo Eva Sereny took of Cybill Shepherd and me (from Vogue, July 1974), all I can see is everything that I didn't know. There was so much. Cybill and I were living together openly-at...

breaking point; When Deborah Scroggins first went to Darfur, she knew her life would never be the same.
January 1, 2005... Byline: Deborah Scroggins Darfur. Everyone is talking about it, from television reporters at CNN to the other mothers in the car-pool line. "How do you feel about Darfur?" they ask. And what I'm actually thinking is how strange it is to...

TRENDS OF THE MONTH fitting moments.
January 1, 2005... Tailoring returns this season with edgy haute rocker jackets and ladylike tweed suits. At a recent party hosted by Jude Law at New York City's Soho House, women paired YSL jackets featuring balloon shoulders and metallic details with sleek...

do's & don'ts; Most social lives could benefit, William Norwich writes, from a few improvements.
January 1, 2005... Byline: William Norwich Do consider slowing down on the excessive plastic surgeries and assorted cosmetic procedures. The mommy-mummy look is starting to scare my readers and could put me out of business. DON'T assume fashion...

sweet & lowdown.
January 1, 2005... After months of captivity in cumbersome moon boots and mukluks, we're very happy to slip into spring's embellished flats, with their scatterings of sequins and their slick metallic leathers. It's a delicious, freeing sensation that starts with...

the artful dodgers; John Lithgow, Sherie Rene Scott, and Norbert Leo Butz charm their way through Broadway's lovably insincere new musical.
January 1, 2005... Byline: Adam Green They're having too much fun-I've got to spray them down with a garden hose," director Jack O'Brien says of John Lithgow, Sherie Rene Scott, and Norbert Leo Butz, the stars of the upcoming Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. During...

games people play; It seems Wes Anderson is up to his usual tricks in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.
January 1, 2005... The spooky thing about being a hot young filmmaker is how quickly your personal style can become public property. Just as Pulp Fiction plunged Quentin Tarantino into a Hollywood where every violent screenplay was suddenly "Tarantinoesque," so...

young at heart.
January 1, 2005... Byline: John Powers Nobody Knows tells the touching story of four Japanese children who, abandoned by their loony mother, spend a year fending for themselves in a dinky Tokyo apartment. It was directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda, best known...

scalpels in the city; Joan Juliet Buck is charmed by women in medicine.
January 1, 2005... Byline: Joan Juliet Buck Grey's Anatomy is an ABC series about a vocation that manages to make the desire to cut people open as romantic as the desire to be a great musician. Created by Shonda Rhimes (who wrote the terrific HBO film...

sea breeze; A new resort on the Turks and Caicos Islands combines pristine beaches with the latest in luxury and service.
January 1, 2005... Byline: Richard Alleman Amere hour-and-fifteen-minute flight from Miami, the Turks and Caicos Islands boast some of the world's finest white sand beaches and some of the tropics' smartest resorts-from the exclusive Meridian and Grace Bay...

in full bloom.
January 1, 2005... Byline: Megan O'grady The moment 48-year-old Marian Kahn, a history professor, best-selling author, and Park Avenue native, falls for Oliver Stern, a handsome flower-shop owner 22 years her junior, an affair ensues torrid enough to make...

flying colors; With the help of a famous friend, fashion's favorite face-maker, Gucci Westman, brings seaside shades-and a dash of her own effervescent spirit-to spring's new makeup.
January 1, 2005... Byline: Maggie Bullock Gucc!" Starbucks in hand, yellow Lab, Flossie, at her side, Drew Barrymore makes a beeline across a Manhattan photo studio to scoop up makeup artist Gucci Westman into an affectionate bear hug. Seconds later, the duo...

creams of the crop; Form and function converge in winter's most glamorous skin savers.
January 1, 2005... Byline: Sarah Brown Winter brings dull, dry, flaky skin-which is generally not regarded as a plus, except for the fact that this dry skin necessitates, or at least permits, the purchase of a wildly extravagant luxury body cream. From...